Scraped content with adsense . Legal?

[Crypt24]

Lets say i do a page of a certain news from bbc . I used 1/4 of their content and add my adsense code in the middle of the content but giving credit back to source .

Example
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NEWS HEADLINE
date: xx-xx-#*$!x
Source : [sourcelink...]

1/4 CONTENT from source + my adsense code

more at source link

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Is that legal?

[zCat]

If you're not sure, why not ask the BBC and AdSense for their opinion? Have your lawyer write a letter like this:

Dear BBC,

I am intending to borrow your content to make money from it. If I put a link to your site, will you refrain from sending a DMCA notice to AdSense? Pretty please? I'd appreciate this very much.

Yours sincerely

...

While the letter is in the post, make sure you read up on the "Banned from AdSense" threads.

[Crypt24]

I was just wondering because i have seen many sites that are doing the same thing and for a long time i might add , their adsense still remains on their site . Anyways , how about the same content but without adsense . Will that be ok?

Thanks

[zCat]

Just because someone else is doing it, doesn't make it automatically OK.

The only people who can give you a qualified answer to this are copyright lawyers and the copyright holders themselves. If the BBC has something on its site that says "please, take a quarter of each of our pages for your own use, just remember to link back to us", then you're fine.

FWIW, my previous employers had this kind of thing done to them quite a lot, and were very proactive about pursuing the "perpetrators".

[Syzygy]

It is possible to syndicate BBC news for your site quite legitimately.

Go to BBC news homepage, scroll to bottom of page, click the link that says "Headlines for your site", read the FAQ and, if you can meet the criteria, apply...

Syzygy

[tomda]

You are not permitted to copy, broadcast, download, store (in any medium), transmit, show or play in public, adapt or change in any way the content of these BBC web pages for any other purpose whatsoever without the prior written permission of the BBC.

[Syzygy]

Quite correct. But you are allowed to syndicate it...

Syzygy

[Crypt24]

Thank you all very much